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A lightweight image encryption scheme based on chaos and diffusion circuit

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The Internet of Things (IoT) devices is being deployed in almost all aspects of human life starting from smart home, health monitoring, smart metering, to smart garbage collection and industrial applications. These devices sense and collects data from the environment and send it to other high power computing devices called fog nodes or to the cloud. One of the major challenges in this process is secure communication of data as the IoT devices are having low processing power, memory and energy constraints. This paper proposes a lightweight encryption technique for images using chaotic maps and diffusion circuits. The chaotic maps are used to control the generation of random number sequences which are used for permutation and substitution of the pixel values in images. Both permutation and substitution of the pixel values are done in one scan of the image only reducing the time complexity. The substitution operations are simple bit-wise operations reducing the computational overhead. The scheme is tested by several statistical and security tests to ensure its strength against attacks.

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Mondal, B., Singh, J.P. A lightweight image encryption scheme based on chaos and diffusion circuit. Multimed Tools Appl 81, 34547–34571 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-021-11657-7

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